Open source network management comparison: General

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Attribute / Project	OpenNMS	Nagios	Zenoss	Hyperic	Zabbix
General
Licence	GPL	GPL	GPL	GPL	GPL
First released	2000	1998	2006	2006	2001
Development languages	Java	C	Python / Zope	Java / C	C / PHP
External dependencies	RRDTool / JRobin	Net-SNMP / RRDTool	RRDTool	SNMP4J	Net-SNMP
Configuration	XML files	Text files	Web based	Web based	Web based
Extensible
User interface	Web	Web / WAP	Web	Web	Web
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Update 1: Added C to the Hyperic development languages

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jeremy hogan July 18, 2008 at 2:30 PM: Hey Jack,

Thanks for including Hyperic in your breakdown. I don’t know if it’s worth mentioning, but Hyperic is actually written in Java and C (SIGAR is C), and we don’t have any external requirement for SNMP4J. It’s used by the SNMP plugins, but we include it in the package–not sure if that’s how you meant “external” or not.

Thanks again!
–jeremy
Jack Hughes July 18, 2008 at 2:39 PM: @Jeremy – you’re welcome … I will correct the omission on the implementation language